Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...criminal act. And so, in his black-comic tour de force novel American Psycho, Ellis pushed past parody into nightmare farce. He created, in his antihero Patrick Bateman, a moneyman with a true killer instinct: mergers and acquisitions become murders and executions. "I have all the characteristics of a human being," Patrick (Christian Bale) says in Mary Harron's handsome, icily funny film version, "but not a single identifiable human emotion, except for greed and disgust...
...will promote its new coffee beans this fall with in-store posters and brochures and keep the product on the shelves in 2,000 outlets for at least a year. Will the effort percolate through the whole $18 billion U.S. coffee industry? Global Exchange, the San Francisco-based human-rights group that organized the aborted protest, is calling on companies such as Folgers and Maxwell House to follow suit. Warns Medea Benjamin, a Global Exchange official: "Coffee without the Fair Trade seal is very likely sweatshop coffee...
Pity the beleaguered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Even before last week's announcement by Celera, applications for patents on human genes were pouring in by the thousands. Biotech firms are seeking rights to genes that might control everything from the neurotransmitters in your brain to susceptibility to chronic diseases. The frenzy is rekindling fears that a few corporations will end up controlling a priceless resource...
Already, skirmishes have broken out between university-based researchers, many allied with the Human Genome Project, and small, aggressive firms like Celera, Incyte and Human Genome Sciences. These companies are churning out patent claims almost as fast as they sequence our DNA. In 1999 Celera filed provisionally on no fewer than 6,500 genes and their fragments...
This year Human Genome Sciences won sweeping rights to future products based on a gene known as CCR5. The protein it encodes has emerged as a promising target for anti-AIDS drugs. That rankles Christopher Broder, who, along with a platoon of other scientists, nailed down the link between CCR5 and AIDS. Why, Broder asks, should Human Genome Sciences profit from their hard work...